The Ascent

Two Soviet partisans leave their starving band to get supplies from a nearby farm. The Germans have reached the farm first, so the pair must go on a journey deep into occupied territory, a voyage that will also take them deep into their souls.

Boris Plotnikov

Vladimir Gostyukhin

Anatoliy Solonitsyn

(Portnov, collaborationist interrogator)

Lyudmila Polyakova

(Avginya Demchikha, the mother)

Viktoriya Goldentul

(Basya Meyer, the girl)

Sergey Yakovlev

(Petr Sych, village elder)

Mariya Vinogradova

(Village elder's wife)

Mykola Sektymenko

(Stas Gomenyuk, collaborationist policeman)

Leonid Yukhin

(Partisan commander)

Aleksandr Zvenigorskiy

(German officer)

Vladimir Rudyy

(German officer with black glasses)

Anatoli Chebotaryov

(German officer with glasses)

Vasili Kravtsov

(German officer)

Vladimir Tkalich

(German officer)

Aleksandr Pyatkov

(German soldier, executioner)

Sergey Yurtaykin

Igor Bezyaev

(Soviet partisan)

Stanislav Borodokin

(Soviet partisan)

Stanislav Zhitaryov

(Soviet partisan)

Vadym Husiev

(Soviet partisan)

Aleksandra Kharitonova

(Soviet partisan with a child)

Gennadi Nenashev

(Matyushenko, Soviet partisan)

Galina Bulkina

(Peasant woman)

Mikhail Selyutin

V. Sokolov

(Collaborationist policeman)

Sergei Kanishchev

(Boy wearing a budenovka)

Dima Buranov

Svetlana Kulkova

Marina Pchelintseva

Vladimir Sukhorebry

Nikolay Gagarin

Nikolai Smirnov

Sergey Fyodorov

A. Gerasimov

V. Lavrentyev

N. Chetvergov

A. Naumova

Yevgeniy Markov

(German officer (uncredited))